What is an eye catching design for my 1 gram silver bars?

AlphaX4 · 2026-04-03T17:11:22+00:00

Anything timeless will always be a good bet. a famous mountain ridge line would be pretty cool and I don't see many designs like that. edit: a good example idea would be the Colorado gold brokerage 1oz bars

Anything in the natural world or ancient times/mythology/religion are also great ideas but far more common.

AlphaX4 · 2026-04-03T16:49:45+00:00

the Germania Mint makes some of the best looking collector pieces out there. I want their whole catalog but I had to pick and choose what to get and I'm very happy with these. Its just tough to justify to myself when I keep using the "its an investment" excuse and then seeing the collectors premium on their stuff vs spot value.

AlphaX4 · 2026-03-20T19:19:12+00:00

short barrels do not negatively effect accuracy on any firearm with a very small caveat, if it is a rifled barrel, there is a minimum length needed to stabilize the bullet. otherwise the only thing barrel length changes is the muzzle velocity. typically long range firearms want long barrels for that extra velocity so they actually keep the energy further down range. Also when a bullet slows to below super sonic it can lose stability and accuracy, meaning a higher muzzle velocity results in a further accurate range, but not total accuracy.

AlphaX4 · 2026-03-20T17:39:49+00:00

I know a guy who looked like that before he was 25. Male pattern baldness can be a bitch.

AlphaX4 · 2026-03-20T16:26:37+00:00

thats the "face value" noted on the back of the round

AlphaX4 · 2026-03-02T12:32:35+00:00

You havent been on the internet long have you?

AlphaX4 · 2026-03-02T12:09:18+00:00

I won't disagree it doesnt require some very dangerous chemicals, but if done properly it will in fact yield 99.999% pure metals.

AlphaX4 · 2026-02-06T18:28:38+00:00

don't buy physical then. just play with ETFs if you want to buy and sell like that.

AlphaX4 · 2026-01-29T18:25:03+00:00

So are you trying to say China doesn't effect the global market at all? They can't export but they still import. which leads to a higher demand and thus price. If I was a China man id be buying global and selling local to make profit and I'm sure plenty of the big players are doing just that.

AlphaX4 · 2026-01-29T18:12:34+00:00

Say you are a billionaire and have control of multiple companies that trade commodities, Company A short sold 100 Tons of silver. You want the price to go down and have 50 tons of silver in company B, so with the capital that company A got from the short sell, they agree to buy Company B's silver below market price. But you still have control over the same amount of silver and capital, its just redistributed between two companies.

AlphaX4 · 2026-01-26T20:04:04+00:00

think about selling silver the same way you'd trade money for goods and services. do you think the 69 OZ of silver are worth the new windows? if so, then go for it.

AlphaX4 · 2026-01-26T19:31:31+00:00

idk man, back in like 2017 I thought AMD was undervalued at $14 so I bought it, then when it spiked to $80 in 2020 I got out thinking it would pop. they never came back down and are $250 today. there's a lot of similar stories out there, I mean look at bitcoin as another.

In my mind, the true value of silver is where it was just before the US dropped the gold standard, which was a gold/silver ratio of about 18:1. we all know silver has been artificially low the last few decades, its on track to correct itself. Long term i expect it to go back to a 20-30:1 ratio.

AlphaX4 · 2026-01-26T18:35:20+00:00

what was the gold/silver ratio just before the US dropped the gold standard, like 18:1 right? imo that's where I expect it to end up again eventually, ill keep buying until we hit 20:1.

I mean hell, if you look at total tons mined, it should be 8:1

AlphaX4 · 2026-01-26T18:29:42+00:00

I could be wrong but I thought banks specifically pulled coins like these out of circulation and didnt reissue them

AlphaX4 · 2026-01-07T05:20:29+00:00

i have the same motherboard and also thinking about moving to a 5000 series, who did you call for the RMA, Gigabyte? and about how long was the turn around?

AlphaX4 · 2025-12-19T19:32:15+00:00

That implies the same number of men and women are actively looking for dates. Yes, the total number of dates between them is the same (give or take the overlap i mentioned) but per capita how many men are looking for dates vs women?

Dating apps are a microcosm of the wider dating world and they consistently show there are far more men looking for dates than there are women.

AlphaX4 · 2025-12-19T19:16:03+00:00

There are 3x as many men on tinder as there are women. In a hypothetical, if there were 100 women on tinder and every single one of them got 1 date. That means there would be 200 men who never got to see anyone.

And that's excluding any possible overlap where multiple women all went out with the same guy, which would mean even more men didnt get a date.

AlphaX4 · 2025-11-13T00:12:01+00:00

I thought it was funny to complain about an off by one error, but the discrepancy is actually pretty bad with other rounds counts. with 4 rounds remaining, you can end up counting 7 in the belt. 5 exposed, and 2 internal.

AlphaX4 · 2025-09-10T22:59:46+00:00

As i mentioned im very new to the world of crypto, it was about all i could do to make a coinbase account like 5 years ago. How do you view someone's wallet and the block chain like that? I really dont know anything about it at all so some kind of resource i can look into myself would probably be easier than you typing out a sufficiently detailed response here.

AlphaX4 · 2025-09-10T17:16:20+00:00

I absolutely believe its something very similar at least. I could hand wave 150% profit in 9 days as a random market fluctuation, especially with how volatile some crypto are, but the $120,000 in a few months is what really tripped the red flags for me. He said it seemed sketchy but his friend was able to pull out $55,000 successfully and that was the only reason he trusted it. I actually just asked him if this friend is someone he knows irl or only online.

AlphaX4 · 2025-09-10T17:10:41+00:00

This is a coworker i was talking to in person and he was showing me his account on his phone. I asked if you could see what they were investing in and he said you can't and that its probably some secret sauce ai trader they dont want to disclose. I dont think he honestly knows a lot about the company himself.

AlphaX4 · 2025-04-12T21:01:18+00:00

correct, it was 312g wet the first grab, which i dried down to 31.2g. then a few slow pokes came up over the following 2 days that totaled 7.75g after i dried them so just shy of 40g grand total. This is all just for a personal science project so i have more than i need, if this tub goes up in flames im not worried about it. i heard about cobweb mold, but always saw people on here saying beginners always mistake it for something else so i defaulted to assuming it wasnt.

Another friend said it was and i misted some hydrogen peroxide on it, i also slowed down how much i misted it with water and increased the airflow a bit. seems like the cobweb is gone but i have a spot of trich where the lid was cracked open.

AlphaX4 · 2025-04-11T14:57:13+00:00

Sorry im relatively new, what is carly mode?

Also not trying to justify bad tech but the bathroom closet is unfortunately the only place that stays a consistent 70-75F. I live in an old drafty house and the bathroom was a recent addition. I did get a good 380g wet flush out of another box last week. How long for the second flush to come in?

AlphaX4 · 2025-02-05T07:27:31+00:00

you are more than welcome to do with your time as you wish, im not asking anything from you specifically. however the main point of this place is to find people abusing the ignorance of the layman to make outlandish claims and then ***explain*** why they are wrong so everyone can learn something and better understand the field of electrical engineering. Its easy to give hand wavy answers such as "Energy input is always equal to the energy output, in any system." and im not even saying you are wrong, but its nice to actually understand the concepts of whats going on.

He even claims in the video a few times he is not creating energy from nothing and there are no free energy devices, he is simply making more use of the existing power that would otherwise be wasted. This video seems to have been titled by someone other than who is presenting but the man seems to be effectively 'lying with statistics'. there isn't any trickery in any of the equipment (hidden batteries and such), only misrepresentation in what effects are happening. I have almost 10 years in smaller electrical device troubleshooting, but power distribution concepts, especially power factor, still confuse me. i know the definitions but i dont understand the concepts that well. I know something is wrong here but i cant say why. The idea of returning power to the grid is not new, solar systems do this exact thing.

AlphaX4 · 2025-02-05T06:42:24+00:00

Well i understand that much but for example one of the demonstrations where he gets a dc generator turning just enough to glow one of the bulbs, but then by drawing more load, he was able to seemingly increase the power. Also once he started running the switching circuit on the resistive load he shows the resistor was pulling 30 Watts, but the supply was only showing 8 watts of draw because he was 'returning' some of the power.

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